Chelsea may still be waiting on their first Premier League goal from a striker this season, but they will come - says Frank Lampard.

Blues have three target-men on their books - Fernando Torres, Samuel Eto'o and Demba Ba - all of whom are yet to break their league duck six games into the season.

“It's going to come,” said Lampard. “You have phases like that. You can't pinpoint strikers. You can't always have flowing goals.

“You might have a patch now in the next five or ten games where they go and score 20 goals between them. I think it's just a period of the season.

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"It's an old adage, but you don't care who scores if you win games. And the way Fernando played (at Tottenham), with his presence, he could have scored goals and created goals for others.

“I don't think you can pinpoint on a striker that they have to score to make a performance.”

Torres is the only one of the three to get a goal anywhere, in the Super Cup against Bayern and the League Cup at Swindon, and Lampard says the Spaniard's sharpness should see that drought end soon.

“He was very sharp and competitive (against Tottenham),” said Lampard of the Blues' number nine, “and that's what you want to see from your striker.

“He was causing lots of problems with his pace, with his direct play – and I think he was unlucky not to get a goal, and obviously unlucky to get sent off.”

Asked if we were starting to see the old Torres, Lampard leapt to his team-mate's defence: “I wouldn't say the 'old Fernando'. He's been sharp, and I think that's doing him a bit of discredit really.

“We've got competition, we've got three strikers that are fighting, and it's up to everyone to stay sharp - not just Fernando, but all over the pitch. (At Tottenham) he did his stuff.”